Show MOTHERS CONGRESS the congress of mothers opened iz in the assembly hall last night june 30 is a gathering of much interest and importance it is well attended and tile the news hopes the sojourn in the city of the saints of the visiting ladies may f prove in every respect pleasant and profitable A congress of mothers is a campara lively new idea it is the offspring of the modern ideal of motherhood hitherto the development of the child has A proceeded accordi according ng to the tinga of instinct often in an unsystematic haphazard way with much less knowl edge on the part of the mother of the tha physical and mental powers to be prepared for practical use than that possessed by the engineer relative to the machinery he handles that time ts Is rapidly passing passi ing though A mother now under stands that education properly coin i bences before the little blue or dark eyes have been opened to the light agh of r the sun she knows the effect of beautiful surroundings a morally pure atmosphere g mo moa phere sphere mental calm and repose she realizes that the little faults of ther child very often are but a reflex of the moral light that illuminates the home and the school for what is thea child soul but a sensitive plate on wiloh t impressions impress lons are constantly made by taft th surroundings she he turns with a shudder from the brutally cruel methods methodi 1 of education that were resorted to in order that the position of a 8 citizen in ili the state might never become any I 1 other than that of a subject not to say a slave and she ahe calls to het her aid I 1 instead the laws of hygiene and domes dora tic science well knowing that food water air have no less to do with th health of the mind than the astren f of the body but the new ideal of mother motherhood hoo a not yet universally accepted or ever 3 fully understood A mothers cengr congress we take it is held beld for the purpose d disseminating the gospel goetel of chil childS 51 trad training ning among those on whom t tha duty rests actually or prospectively S there can be no more important MIS alaj slon sion no work of more practical to the nation I 1 t |